The sky is green and the earth is white

The sky is green and the earth is white

(questioning materia medica)

[synonyms] maonvcai (questioning materia medica), qingmingcao (classified herbal medicine), Kojima tenuifolia (botanical Dictionary), zhengzicao; xiaodiluohan, xiaoyejinjigue, baizhaoqu (Fujian folk herbal medicine), xiaohuocao (Sichuan Chinese herbal medicine), yeqingmingcao (Chongqing herbal medicine), maoshuiyi, leigongqing, pineapple grass (Hunan herbal medicine), Xiabai They are: Caragana, baicaozi, xiaobaigenju (Mindong materia medica), wuyungaixue, Gossypium (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole herb of the Compositae plant Kojima japonica.

[plant morphology] Kojima japonica

Perennial herbs, 8-25 cm in height. Stems slender, numerous, tufted, white woolly. The basal leaves are rosette shaped, linear oblanceolate, 2.5-10 cm long and 4-7 mm wide, with blunt apex and pointed tip. The basal part is narrow and thin, entire, and does not fall after anthesis. The upper part is green or slightly white woolly, and the lower part is white tomentose. The stem leaves are gradually short, linear, 2-2.5 cm long and 2-4 mm wide. Inflorescence numerous, clustered at the top; bracts 3-row, dark brown, outer bracts elliptic, inner bracts long and narrow elliptic; all tubular flowers, brown red, about 3.5 mm long; outer row, female, corolla narrow as line; central row, bisexual flowers, corolla slender, apex 5-lobed; stamen 5, anther base sagittate; pistil 1, stigma 2-lobed. Achene elliptic, ca. 1 mm, punctate; corolla 1-row, slender, scabrous. The flowering period is from April to May.

Born in wasteland, roadside, field edge, forest edge. It is distributed in East China and southwest China.

[collection] harvest after flowering and dry in the sun.

Sweet and cool.

① Fujian folk herbal medicine 9: "Gan, Ping, non-toxic. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "sweet and light, slightly cold, non-toxic. "

③ Chongqing herbal medicine: "astringent, slightly cold, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] 1. Quanzhou materia medica: "into the liver and small intestine. "

② "Mindong Materia Medica": "into the lung, liver, spleen three channels. "

Functions and indications: relieving exterior symptoms, clearing away heat, improving eyesight and diuresis. It is used to treat cold, cough, headache, sore throat, red eyes, Yizhang, hot closed urine, drenching, leucorrhea, carbuncle and sore.

① "Classification of herbal medicine": it can treat sore throat, white turbidity and collapse. And liver food can improve eyesight. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "it can improve eyesight, benefit liver, diuresis and relieve fever. "

③ "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "treat all ophthalmic internal and external barriers, golden wounds. "

④ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is used to treat cough, phlegm, wind cold and pain in the joints of bones. "

⑤ "Hunan medicine records": "treatment of pertussis, leucorrhea. "

⑥ "Mindong Materia Medica": "dispelling wind, relieving exterior, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Treat cold, headache, red eyes, cough. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, fresh 1-3 Liang; or mash juice. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of cold, cough, asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic cough, blurred eyes, mouth sores, malnutrition: tianqingdibai, decoction. (Hunan medical records)

② Prevention of heatstroke: one or two of Curcuma tenuifolia (fresh). Fried in water for tea. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of sore throat heat knot; tianqingdibai (fresh) one to two. Add brown sugar and boiled water to stew.

④ Wind and fire control is also eye: tianqingdibai (fresh) two to four Liang, crystal sugar one or two. Add boiling water to stew.

⑤ Treatment of irritability and insomnia: tianqingdibai (fresh) two to four Liang. Take it in water, twice a day.

⑥ Treatment of dysmenorrhea: tianqingdibai two to four Liang. And the second rice washing water mash jiaozhifu. (3) Fujian folk herbal medicine

⑦ Zhi Huo Lin: the sky is green and the earth is white. Take it in boiling water. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

⑧ Treatment of jaundice in children: tianqingdibai (fresh) five money to one or two. Wash, mash the juice, add a little rock sugar, stew and warm, twice a day. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑨ Treatment of infantile convulsion: tianqingdibai (fresh) five to eight money. Drink water to fry, red cinnabar clothing. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑩ Treatment of carbuncle and unknown swelling poison: tianqingdibaihe rice, mash and apply to the affected area. (Quanzhou materia medica)

(11) treatment of breast redness and swelling: the sky is green and the earth is white, smash the external application. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

(12) treatment of sores, redness and swelling: the sky is green and the earth is white. Pound with brown sugar. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

Treatment of snakebite: a grasp of the green sky and the white earth. Mix lard and pound. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)